Garter



- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM ROLAND SMITH, OF HILLSBORO, TEXAS.

GARTER.

. appucamm mea May 11,

This invention aims to provide a simple means for mounting a garter on the leg of a wearer and for connecting the garter with a stocking or sock.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which theV invention appertalns.

With the above and other objects in view kwhich will appear as the description vproceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood thatV changes in the precise embodiment ofthe .invention herein disclosed, may be made with- 'in the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention. f

In the drawings f f Figure` 1 showsV in perspective, a device of the class described constructed in accordance with the invention;

- Figure 2 is an elevation of the connector; Figure 3 is a cross section on the line 3 3 of Figure 2;

Figure l is a section onthe line of Figure'2; Figure 5 with parts of the band broken away.

` In carrying outfthe invention there is provided a U-'shaped plate l, which, possibly,

has some resiliency, the plate l being curved transversely, as at 2,V to shape it to the leg Y of the' wearer, `the plate including arms 3' provided at their upper ends with inwardly extended flanges 4;. The numeral v5 marks av band, which'may bey elastic,the band being is a plan of the complete deviceY 1926. serial N6. 108,331.

be adjusted as to size by buckles 7, the loops being- 'engaged with the arms '.3 and being held on the arms by engagement with the flanges 4, the yflanges 4: being' spaced apart by a slit S'which, preferably, is narrow enough so that both vof the loops 6 cannot be` l to the slit 8with a downwardly `extended.

hook lOthat slants toward the plate as the hook extends downwardly. The sock or stocking '9 is pulled upwardly and forwardly throughthe opening 11 in the plate 1 and is caught on the hook 10,'as shown in Figure l.

What is claimed is Y In av device of the class described, a U shaped plate including .arms provided at their upper endsv with inwardly extended flanges, and av'bandV having loops detachably engaged withY the arms and held on the arms by the flanges, the inner edges of the flanges being spaced apart by aV slit which 'isso narrow thatr the loops can be passed ing: theplate being convexed transversely from'side to side to conform to the surface of thev leg of the wearer. 1

In testimony that I ture.

A ROLAND sMrrrr.

. Y claimthe foregoing as'myy own, I havehereto affixed my signasupplied at its ends with loops 6 which may i 

